Games That Weren't 64^®

A short entry to confirm that there was another version of The Fall Guy in production for Elite Software in the early days. The coder was Steven Green, who isn’t the same person who coded 1942 for Elite by the … Continue reading →

This may well be a short lived entry, but The Final Matrix was a ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC title released by Gremlin Graphics back in 1987. However, Zzap Italia reviewed the game and stated that a C64 version was … Continue reading →

The famous film set was to finally get its long awaited conversion to all the home computers, and issue 4 of Commodore Format stated that U.S. Gold had bought the rights to all three films, promising two games: an arcade … Continue reading →

In April 1985, an issue of Commodore Horizons (Page 33) mentioned a particular adventure collection called "The Gold Collection", which was seven games that were to be marketed by Gilsoft and written with the aid of The Quill. These would … Continue reading →

Novasoft was one of those early development companies for the C64 which disappeared as quickly as they arrived. I don’t think i’ve ever really seen anything to come out of the company. The Great London-Paris Air Race was a sequel … Continue reading →

The Great Space Race was to be a huge game across many platforms, especially after the success of Valhalla by Legend. The game was advertised quite heavily with large black space backgrounds with text “The Great Space Race” in large … Continue reading →

A collective entry now for what was to be a large number of Spectrum text adventure conversions to the Commodore 64. In Commodore Force issue 1, Bash the Barbarian mentions that The Guild’s Tony Collins had picked up the rights … Continue reading →

A very short entry for a licence that would never actually get used in the end. Elite Software were pretty on the ball along with Ocean Software back in the day, getting hold of high profile licences such as Airwolf … Continue reading →

A short entry for a title that may well never have existed at all. This was a budget re-release of a game called Comando Tracer, originally released by Dinamic Software. Here is a page from CPC-Power on the game (who … Continue reading →

Very early days for this entry, but this is based from a conversation that GTW had with Alan Botwright (Who worked on Brides of Dracula), who mentioned what C64 titles he worked on including Judge Dredd and a game called … Continue reading →